Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

The Knower of ‘taste’ is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul.

So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.